# The Daily Feud: Showtunes by Ellen Cherry \[Game Over\]

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 10, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037 "2008-11-10T15:13:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/1 "2008-11-10T15:13:48Z")

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Questions about Musicals  
**DO NOT READ THIS THREAD BEFORE YOU POST YOUR ANSWERS**

**Object of the game: Try to think of the most popular answer,** to get the most people matching you. Google is allowed, if you desire. Only answers that are “serious” will be scored. Joke answers will not be considered, as it is not fair to other players.

Scoring - Any answer duplicated by anyone else is worth 100 points divided by the number of entrants. For example: 50 entrant game = 2 pts per answer. If 4 people match that means they each get 8 pts for that answer. No matches = 0 points.

If any of you have ideas for Feuds -_and would like me to score them_- PM me and I’ll get you on The List.

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**Write your answers like this** ; Do not repeat the questions, no periods at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. If you need to comment or clarify your answers, do it AFTER the list of answers. Thanks.  
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The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at **4:00 PM Central** on Tuesday, 11/11/08 whichever comes first.

Good luck!

1. Name your favorite song from _The Sound of Music_.
2. Name your favorite _Chicago_ character.
3. What’s your favorite song from _South Pacific_?
4. Who is your favorite character in _Oklahoma_?
5. John Travolta or Divine (Hairspray)?
6. What’s your favorite musical?
7. Who’s your favorite character (in a musical) of all time?
8. What’s the worst musical?
9. Which has the best Jesus: _Godspell_ or _Jesus Christ Superstar_?
10. Name a Tony award winner from a musical (male or female.)

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/2 "2008-11-10T15:17:24Z")

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i will have to pass this round…

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/3 "2008-11-10T15:23:30Z")

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> [@Rebo](#):
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> i will have to pass this round…

Ditto…asserting my heterosexuality.

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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/4 "2008-11-10T15:26:30Z")

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Yup. This one ain’t for me.

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/5 "2008-11-10T15:29:07Z")

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1. Sixteen Going on Seventeen
2. Billy Flynn
3. You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught
4. Ado Annie
5. Travolta
6. Wicked [sup]\*[/sup]
7. Don Quixote / Alonso Quijana
8. Cop Rock
9. Godspell
10. Daisy Eagan

[sup]\*[/sup]On edit: this is my _current_ favorite, the one I’m listening to on heavy rotation, as opposed to my all-time fave.

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/6 "2008-11-10T15:41:48Z")

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1. _Maria_

2. Eddie Haskell

3. _You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught_

4. Ali Hakim

5. Divine

6. _The Mikado_

7. The Sergeant of Police from _The Pirates of Penzance_

8. _Carrie: The Musical_

9. _Godspell_

10. Nathan Lane

11. I just love the exasperation in the song.

12. I have never watched nor heard _Chicago_, and I decline to guess without knowing anything but a Wikipedia synopsis of the plot.

13. Bitter songs are good.

14. He’s the only character in the whole bloody show I liked. It’s almost as annoying as _Brigadoon_.

15. Just because.

16. Okay, it’s not technically a musical, but the differences between a B-way show and an Operetta are miniscule, ISTM. And it’s just too much fun.

17. Well, I couldn’t make up my mind between Poo-Bah, and Ko-Ko.

18. Anything that closes that quickly has to be bad, right?

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/7 "2008-11-10T15:58:53Z")

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> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> Ditto…asserting my heterosexuality.

Hey. Real mean eat quiche you know!

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/8 "2008-11-10T16:01:05Z")

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> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#):
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> Hey. Real mean eat quiche you know!

Bugger that!

Real men sing show tunes in the shower! 😃

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**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/9 "2008-11-10T16:12:28Z")

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1. Doe, a deer
2. Mama
3. They’ve got to be taught
4. Annie
5. Divine
6. Miss Saigon
7. Mimi in Rent
8. Mame
9. Jesus Christ Superstar
10. Ben Vereen

3 - I get misty if I start singing this beautiful song  
7 - Daphne (the original Mimi) is a friend of mine from NYC

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/10 "2008-11-10T16:12:30Z")

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Don’t know enough about the subject, sorry.

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**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/11 "2008-11-10T16:13:46Z")

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I see that my South Pacific answer is an incorrect title. I really did mean You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught.

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/12 "2008-11-10T16:19:24Z")

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1. Sixteen Going on Seventeen
2. Mama
3. Honey Bun
4. Aunt Eller
5. Divine
6. Little Shop of Horrors
7. Mama Rose
8. Rent
9. Godspell
10. Bebe Neuwirth

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/13 "2008-11-10T16:27:02Z")

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1. “My Favorite Things”
2. Billy Flynn
3. “There Ain’t Nothin’ Like a Dame”
4. Curly
5. Travolta
6. _1776_
7. John Adams, _1776_
8. _Springtime for Hitler_
9. _Godspell_
10. Nathan Lane

OMG, I hope this doesn’t mean that I’m gay… :eek: 😉

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**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/14 "2008-11-10T16:34:12Z")

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> [@Rebo](#):
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> Questions about Musicals

1. “Edelweiss”
2. Amos Hart
3. “This Nearly Was Mine”
4. Ado Annie
5. Divine (but the real answer is, of course, Harvey)
6. The Last Five Years
7. Sweeney Todd
8. Carrie: The Musical
9. Jesus Christ Superstar
10. Ben Vereen

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**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/15 "2008-11-10T16:47:58Z")

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1. Climb Every Mountain
2. Amos Hart
3. Bloody Mary
4. Jud Fry
5. Divine
6. 1776
7. Moonface Martin
8. Rent
9. Jesus Christ Superstar
10. Rita Moreno

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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/16 "2008-11-10T16:48:50Z")

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1. My Favorite Things
2. Velma
3. Some Enchanted Evening
4. Ado Annie
5. Divine
6. The Music Man
7. Nathan Detroit
8. Spice World
9. Jesus Christ Superstar
10. Nathan Lane

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/17 "2008-11-10T16:50:53Z")

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1. edilwiese
2. Roxy Hart
3. Some Enchanted Evening
4. Ado Annie
5. Divine
6. Sunset Blvd
7. Norma Desmond
8. Paint Your Wagon
9. Jesus Christ Superstar?
10. Nathan Lane
11. Sorry about the spelling

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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/18 "2008-11-10T17:08:38Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> OMG, I hope this doesn’t mean that I’m gay… :eek: 😉

Nah, just that you like to sing in the shower 😛

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/19 "2008-11-10T17:27:52Z")

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1. Climb Every Mountain
2. Velma
3. Some Enchanted Evening
4. People will say We are in Love
5. Divine
6. West Side Story
7. Professor Higgins
8. Little Shop of Horrors
9. J. C. Superstar
10. Betty Buckley

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-showtunes-by-ellen-cherry-game-over/472037/20 "2008-11-10T17:58:41Z")

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1. Eidelweiss
2. Roxie
3. Some Enchanted Evening
4. Curly
5. Divine
6. My Fair Lady
7. Nathan Detroit
8. The Producers
9. Superstar
10. Nathan Lane

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